Me watching MR. SCORSESE with my dad last week: You know, someone should really gather his early short films in a collection on Blu-ray. Me at the library this week 🤯 Kudos @criterion.bsky.social you literally read my mind and incepted Scorsese Shorts into a library I was randomly visiting.

I’ll come down to Earth soon. Haven’t quite yet.

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

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It's Day 2 of Woodstock Film Festival. I had the pleasure of working with the amazing @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social team again this year, copy editing the program. Make sure to get your tickets to some of the best films of the year. WFF is screening the latest films from Yorgos Lanthimos...

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating. And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

Thinking more about #Parallels25, my primary take-away is the same as it is every year: Life is overwhelming. The world is a nightmare. Politics are exhausting. BUT: We keep making art! Art is vital, beautiful, heartwarming, and a salve against everything that ails us.

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in. The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight. They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

They wanted the House. They wanted the Senate. They wanted the White House. They got it. All of it. It's all theirs. And it's shut down. They can lie They can troll They can "own the libs" But. They. Cannot. Govern. This is all you need to hold in mind when you're looking to assign blame.

FedEx tracking is a complete & utter joke - FedEx package was going to be delivered by EOD Fri, then Sat, then Sun & now it's tomorrow. When I called @FedExHelp on Fri, rep said it wouldn't definitely be there by 8pm. Tracking literally shows "on vehicle for delivery" twice. Avoid Fedex!

RIP Diane Keaton. If you haven’t seen her portrayal of Louise Bryant in Warren Beatty’s criminally underrated Reds, it’s a phenomenal performance in a brilliant picture.

There is nothing he won't destroy to cover his ass on his crimes with Epstein. NOTHING.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

People taking photos of the screen during ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (and sharing them on socials to brag) are the worst villains of our time. You’re supposed to put your phones away during the movie, you dumb f*cks.

The below post is from CBS Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei yesterday. It comes one day after Chicago journalist Steve Held was detained while covering a protest outside the Broadview immigration facility. Absolutely inexcusable attack perpetrated by an ICE thug. He should be fired immediately! 😡

Check out the 2025 #Slamdance Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists! slamdance.com/2025-screenp... It's my 6th season with Slamdance & this year 14 of my 19 (74%) recommendations made it into the Quarterfinalists, including all 8 feature & horror/thriller recommendations I made & 5 TV pilots.

NO OTHER CHOICE is a screwball, blackly hilarious satire from Park Chan-wook that slices like a paper cut. Lee Byung-hun gives a Chaplin-worthy performance in this bleak, absurd, dazzling comedy of errors about being chewed up by capitalism. No one works a camera like Park. #FilmSky

I just watched Alex Garland's WARFARE. That was intense. Almost *too* intense. But really, really good. And freaking intense.

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

🔥 @adammockler.com : “Every time one of these tragic shootings happens everybody’s at each other’s throats about which side did it but we’re missing a broader pattern in 🇺🇸— this was another white young white dude in his 20’s… an acceleration of radicalization of young men…”

I'm so excited for @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social's lineup this year - check it out! I had the pleasure of copy editing the program for the 2nd year in a row. Such a great team & festival with so many amazing films this year. Get your passes & tickets now! woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-eve...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

A fitting Obit! Live your life so someone doesn't write an obit like this about you!

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

Yes, release the Epstein files!!!

RIP Robert Redford. Here's his closing statement from The Candidate

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

A completely subjective, highly personal, totally prejudiced list of the Best Films at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival—or "TIFF," as the locals call it—that is also the only truly correct 10 best list and you should accept no substitutes #TIFF2025 🎥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

" We are here to support our neighbors. Our neighbors are being kidnapped."

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Sorry Mike Johnson, but If you're going to enact fascist policies and act as enemies of the state, then you're going to be called that. Maybe try not being a fascist! 🤔

A must read on Charlie Kirk: "To call for “continuing his work” or to praise how he “practiced politics” is to erase what that work actually was: a relentless campaign of hate directed at LGBTQ+ people, racial and ethnic minorities, and anyone who refused to fall in line."

The line between my nightmares and reality seems to be getting thinner and thinner.

For anyone offering thoughts and prayers to a hateful man who brought about his own demise, read this:

The Long Walk is heartfelt, heartbreaking, and harrowing all in one. This is an all-timer when it comes to Stephen King adaptations. And Chalie Hoffman and David Jonsson (especially) deserve so many more roles. Just go watch it. My review 👇🏾

BREAKING: A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court panel has voted to convict ex-President Jair Bolsonaro for plotting to overturn the 2022 election

AOC: Whether it is a member of congress, whether it is the President to assume and assert and cast blame when the FBI has failed to even apprehend the assailant, is absolutely an irresponsible action.

timeline cleanse she so badly wanted the stick my son was sitting on

if you have the resources and ability and the circumstances permit, I encourage you to spend a few minutes outside with some kind of nature today, as a restorative and for perspective

This is where THE BEAR is S4 E9. Where are we as a country right now?

I don’t think One Battle After Another can be over-hyped. You’re going to hear alot of what sounds like awards season hyperbole about it, but it’s not - the movie is undeniable, it really is that good. And it’s a big funny entertaining action movie, but also much more. I can’t wait to see it again.

Before Coffee After Coffee

For De Los at @latimes.com, I profiled Oscar Nuñez, the actor who played Oscar Martinez in THE OFFICE and now THE PAPER. We discussed the character that has been part of his life for 20 years, and he spoke out about the current anti-immigrant climate in this country: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

IT'S THE GUNS!!!!!!!